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Wagon Seat; n No. 238,11'4. Patented Feb. 22, 18181.

' UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

WILLIAM H. HARRIS, OF HORNELLSVILLE, NEW YORK.

WAGON-SEAT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 238,114, dated February 22, 1881.

Application led December 1S, 1880.

To all whom it may concern:

' Be it known that I, WILLIAM H. HARRIS, of Hornellsville, in the county ot" Steuben and State of New York, have invented a new and valuable Improvement in VVagon-Seats; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the construction and operation of the saine, reference being had to the annexed drawings, making a part ot' this specitication, and to the letters an`d\\gures of reference marked thereon.

Figure l of the drawings is a plan view. Figs. 2 and 3 are details. Fig. 4L is a view of the plate. Fig. 5 is a-view ot' the blank from which the plate is formed.

This invention relates to vehicleseats.

Theinvention consists in the construction hereinafter described and claimed.

In the drawings hereto annexed, A is a carriage-seat, having the back Bl and sides C O, inclined as shown, and having the meeting ends b and 0, forming the corners D and E. F is the metal plate, which is inserted in said meeting ends. In making this plate a bank is struck, as shown in Fig; 3, and then bent to the form in Fig. 4. This is an obtuse angle. The ends of the back and sides are prepared for this plate by having kert's made therein. These are cutfroin the inner edge, d, of the "ends outward, andnearly to the outside edge ofthe sides and backs, as shown at G and H, the depth of each kerf being commensurate with the length ot' the portion ot' the plate to enter said kert'. These two kerts form the same angle as that made by the sides ofthe plates.

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By making the plate at an obtuse'a'ngle the tendency to separate the corners by strain is ettectually overcome; and it' the pills were lost, or if there were no pins at all, the shape of the plate would securely hold the seat together, since the strain on the back or a side is at right angles to the other meeting edge, and the plate is at an angle to such strain and would not pull out.

When it is desired to have the inside of the corner rounded the outside of the ends of the sides and back are curved, as shown at I, and the kerfs are cut from the .outside edge outwardly along the sides and back nearly to their outer edges. On the inside the corner is cut out, and a rounded piece, K, inserted.

I am aware that it is not new to insert metal plates in the meeting edges of the back and sides ot' a vehicle-seat; but as Ifar as I know such plate has been at right angles, and hence liableto pull out when there is great strain or the fastening-pins slip out. to such a plate; but

A metal plate having its sides forming an obtuse angle, in combination with the meeting I make no claim 6c edges ot' the back and sides ot'a vehicle-seat, "65

having kerfs at the same angle as the sides ot' l the plate, and said sides resting in said kerfs, t substantially as described.

In testimony that I claim the above I have f; hereunto subscribed my name in the presence 7o of two witnesses.

WILLIAM HENRY HARRIS.

Witnesses:

TnoMAs J. MAGNER, JAMES GRAHAM. 

